Yes to both! I have so much stuff to do this afternoon, and I resent all of it because I just want to read this book.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Mar 27, 2016 12:20:55 pm PDT #23806 of 28293
Because books.
lisah - Mar 27, 2016 5:50:01 pm PDT #23807 of 28293
Punishingly Intricate
Has anyone else read Where'd You Go, Bernadette? I just started it and I love it! Really sharply funny and I think about to be sort of heartbreaking, too.
Ooh! We're reading it for bookclub this year.
Kat - Mar 27, 2016 6:09:09 pm PDT #23808 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Has anyone else read Where'd You Go, Bernadette? I just started it and I love it! Really sharply funny and I think about to be sort of heartbreaking, too.
I read it last year and really thought it was great even if a bit random.
Calli - Mar 28, 2016 1:36:36 am PDT #23809 of 28293
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I read it with my book group a year or so ago. I had trouble getting the main character, which I think interfered with my enjoyment of the book. But my group had a great conversation about it.
meara - Mar 29, 2016 7:47:59 pm PDT #23810 of 28293
A few of the things that are extra-funny are the very Seattle things. For instance, weather scientist Cliff Mass. Who is a real guy who really does have a blog that many of us follow (and used to be on the radio). I just re-read it and enjoyed many parts all over again, even if some of the main plot was not my favorite
Amy - Apr 01, 2016 5:19:03 pm PDT #23811 of 28293
Because books.
I read it last year and really thought it was great even if a bit random.
Yeah, I'm not sure Where'd You Go, Bernadette has an overall thesis statement (and it seems like it should?), but I really enjoyed the writing. Her cultural observations are amazingly precise.
I think a lot of the book wound up being about how easy it can be to get lost -- in the world, in the narrative you create for yourself, in anger or passion or love. But I also think there's a thread in there about the things we worship, and the ways we worship them -- lifestyles, people, religious icons -- that was unexpected and really fascinating.
I'm definitely going to look up her other book.
erikaj - Apr 01, 2016 8:25:12 pm PDT #23812 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought they both were really funny and the kinds of stuff reviewers write "keenly observed" about but not in a tiresome way.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2016 11:33:24 am PDT #23813 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My library website is down, so I'm just going to leave it here that Sharp Objects is the Gillian Flynn book I haven't read yet.
And in news that might be interested to people not-me, it is going to be on HBO: [link]
Kat - Apr 02, 2016 11:47:29 am PDT #23814 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was cleaning the house and found a piece of paper that had a list of 6 books on it (in my handwriting). I had been writing books down that I thought I might look into with no other reasons listed. So I ordered them from the library and I'm enjoying them.
One book, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is AWESOME. So meta and funny in an apocalpyse adjacent way. Anyone read it?
Amy - Apr 03, 2016 4:33:04 pm PDT #23815 of 28293
Because books.
I just put it on hold at the library. I've wanted to read him for a while -- he has a huge range. A Monster Calling is supposed to be fantastic.